CHAPTER IfV, SECTION 1
LUNCH

BREAKFAST

DINNER

Friday
Chilled Welch Grape Juice
Philadelphia Clam Chowder
1 2 Arizona Grapefruit
Grated Cabbage and Green
Hot Cream of Wheat with Milk
Pepper Salad
Sheed Choice Bacon
Fricd Deep sea Scallops
Country Fried Eggs
Sauce Tartar
Toast with Jam
Baked Beef and Macaroni
Butter Horns
Spanish Stvle
Hot Coffee
Fresh Steamed Cauliflower
Fresh Mik
in Butter
Vienna Bread
Chiled Bartlett Pears
Hot Coffee
Berry Punch

Shrimp Cocktail with Lemon
Baked Sugar Cured Ham with
Raisin Sauce _
Mashed Swect Potatoes with
Grated Pineapple
New Green Peas
White Bread
Angel Food Cake
Assorted Ice Cream
Hot Coffee
Hot Tea

Saturday
Chilled Vegetable V-8 Juice
Fresh Oranges
Hot Oatmeal with Milk
Grilled Little Pig Sausages
Hot Cakes with Maple Syrup
Toast with Jelly
Cake Donuts
Hot Coffee
Fresh Milk

Relish Dish with Cclery, Olives
Cream of Chicken Soup,
Princess
and Hot Peppers
Tuna Fish and Egg with Diced Broiled Sirloin Steaks
Celery
sauce Hordelaise
Brown Beef Stew with Young
Saute Onions
Vegetables
French Fried Potatoes
Parisian Potatoes
Kernel Corn Saute
Green Cut Beans
Butter Crust Rolls
Custard Rum Pie
Strawberry Shortcake
Rve Bread
Hot Coffoe
Hot Coffee
Hot Tea
Iced Tea

Sunday
Chilled Orange Juice
Fresh Nerthern Apples
Assorted Dry Cereal with Milk
Grilled Smoked Ham
Baked Pork and Beans
Fried Eges
Hashed Brown Potatoes
Teast with Preserves
Hot Coffee
Fresh Milk

French Onion Soup aux Grautin
Mixed Chilled Relish Dish
Baked Pork and Beans with
Grilled Frankfurters
Hot Mustard Sauce
Chop Suey Vegetables
White Bread

Chilled Bing Cherries
Hot Coffee
Berry Punch

Monthly requisitions for food were prepared 90 days in advance of requirements to provide maximum reliability in shipping forecasts.
The needs were estimated on a basis of manpower forecasts, “usage factors’, and ‘‘proposed”
menus. The ‘usage factor’ (i.e, the quantity
of a certain item to feed 100 men for one month)
had, been developed from experience over three
years with each class of food. Ordering of food
supplies was based on maintaining a minimum
of a 60-day supply of dry stores, and a 30-day
supply of frozen foods on hand at all times
Chill stores, which were subject to spoilage after

Fruit Salad
Roast Northern Turkey
Savory Dressing - Giblet
Gravy - Cranberry Sauce
Whipped Potatoes
Creamed Whole Onions

Whole Wheat Bread

Silver Cake
Vanilla Ice Cream with
Chocolate Topping
Hot
Coffee
we
Hot Tea

As these items constitute the main ingredients
for most salads and are important dietetically,
it was alwavs necessary to maintain substitutes
for them.
The original concept for OPERATION
CASTLE contemplated the use of the Elmer
camp at Eniwetok as the main hbase of food
supplyfor all camps. As the program expanded,
the need for direct shipments of cold storage
items from the Zone of Interior to both Bikini
and Eniwetok Atolls became evident and ordering was changed to this basis. The subsistence
orders for the months of September 1953 thru
February 1954 were placed so that cold storage
provisions were off-loaded from the reefer ships
both at Elmer and Tare. From these camps, the

three or four weeks storage, were ordered onw

to cover the periods between reefer vessel arrivals. The main difficulty with food receipts was
the spoilage that took place enroute in certain
fresh items such as lettuce, tomatoes, and celery
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